84.51˚ · 2 hours ago
Lead Product Manager- Data Platforms (P2507)
84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. The Lead Product Manager will lead the file movement strategy for the Data Platform team, ensuring alignment with business priorities and delivering measurable value through effective product direction.
Responsibilities
Shape long‑term product vision, connecting platform capabilities to broader business objectives while ensuring alignment across user needs and strategy is understood, supported, and executable
Maintains a 12-month delivery roadmap that clearly articulates how the work progresses strategic outcomes and integrates business priorities, user research/needs, and cross functional dependencies
Translate business goals, user needs, and technical constraints into product requirements and acceptance criteria with clear definitions of done and crisp functional & nonfunctional requirements
Partner with the Data Program leadership, as well as engineering and data science leads, to plan quarters/cycles/sprints and ensure efficient, predictable delivery
Own, define, and evolve core data platform file movement capabilities, including: Fast, asynchronous data movement with smooth ingestion, built in observability and data quality checks. Asynchronous and self-service file movement in and out of our four walls, between applications, data platforms, and cloud tenants across the 84.51˚ and Kroger enterprise
Monitors leading and lagging indicators for product health: adoption/activation/engagement, reliability & operability
Tracks user sentiment via industry standard metrics (such as SUS or NPS); using insights to influence product strategy, vision, and priorities
Maintain a customer panel and map key stakeholders (architecture, governance, security/privacy, finance, operations, vendors)
Build and maintain a strong cross functional communication plan ensuring alignment between users, Kroger, 84.51°, vendors, and adjacent product teams
Maintain core product artifacts such as vision one‑pager; strategy brief; metrics tree/OKRs, operational readiness checklist (monitoring, alerts, runbooks, support model), etc
Analyze product usage and operational data to inform prioritization, measure value, and guide iteration
Drive adoption across internal teams through documentation, enablement, demos, and feedback loops; remove friction points and champion best practice
Qualification
Required
Professional experience leading product strategy for internal, enterprise-level data platform capabilities
Professional experience managing highly technical development teams in an agile environment
Professional experience aligning and influencing cross-functional teams across organizational boundaries to ensure seamless execution beyond your immediate scrum team
Capable of evangelizing product purpose, strategic impact, and customer value with executive-ready narratives; user enablement; visible decision records, etc
Skilled in managing technical tradeoffs (scale, reliability, latency, data contracts, data quality, isolation, and FinOps/cost requirements) against long term plan and strategy
General technical acumen, able to efficiently converse with software engineers, data engineers, and, data scientists to understand their development processes
Skilled in managing end-to-end software product development
Skilled in problem solving, analytic thinking, and creativity
Skilled in planning, organization, and verbal/written business communication
Skilled in maintaining a positive leader persona in ambiguous and changing environments
Skilled in quickly flexing between technical and business stakeholder conversations, adapting to a variety of audiences
Demonstrated excellence as a teammate and leader
4-6 years relevant experience
Education: Bachelor's degree or higher or equivalent professional experience
Benefits
Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health.
Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution.
Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan).
AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year.
Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.